Macy, who currently stars on Showtime's "Shameless," told TMZ of the 1997 Oscar-nominated film: "It's a great movie. It's a moral movie."

He costarred in the Paul Thomas Anderson movie as porn director Little Bill, who (spoiler!) memorably shoots his wife and then himself at a New Year's Eve party after finding her having sex with another man.

In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down. Read More